Sunday, December 17, 2017

shabbat - Kosher switch and Grama according to R. Belsky's letter


Yeshiva World News published a letter from Rabbi Belsky saying that the Kosher Switch accomplishes nothing and is simply a regular melacha.


My question is basically the same as this commentor. Is this a denial of the principle of Grama as a leniency (as R. Belsky alludes to in the footnote, arguably) or is there something specific about the switch and its intended use which is different than the Tzomet switches?




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